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Codex Sierra - A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico (Hardcover)
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Codex Sierra - A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico (Hardcover)
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One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language,
the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa
Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region of the modern
state of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano's transcription and translation,
the first in more than a half century, combine with his deeply
informed analysis to make this the most accurate, complete, and
comprehensive English-language edition of this rare manuscript. The
sixty-two-page manuscript, organized in parallel columns of Nahuatl
alphabetic writing and hand-painted images, documents the
expenditures and income of Texupan from 1550 to 1564. With the
alphabetic column as a Rosetta stone for deciphering the phonetic
glyphs, a picture emerges of indigenous pueblos taking part in the
burgeoning Mexican silk industry - only to be buffeted by the
opening of trade with China and the devastations of the great
epidemics of the late 1500s. Terraciano uses a wide range of
archival sources from the period to demonstrate how the community
innovated and adapted to the challenges of the time, and how they
were ultimately undermined by the actions and policies of colonial
officials. The first known record of an indigenous population's
integration into the transatlantic economy, and of the impact of
the transpacific trade on a lucrative industry in the region, the
Codex Sierra provides a unique window on the world of the Mixteca
less than a generation after the conquest - a view rendered all the
more precise, clear, and coherent by this new translation and
commentary.
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